July 13th, 2026
Our standalone Visitor App has landed on both the App Store and Google Play. Download it to any tablet or phone, set it at your reception desk, and give visitors a fast, clean way to sign themselves in and out.
Because it's a standalone app, it runs on its own device — no Employee App setup needed now.
You don’t need to create new users/credentials to use the new app, just use ones you currently have.
Get it now
Sign in, set up your site once, and you're ready to welcome visitors.
P.S. Custom sign-in checkboxes are coming soon, so you can require every visitor to accept your policies.
July 1st, 2026
Chronicle now talks directly to Staffology Payroll. The hours your team has already recorded in Chronicle can be sent straight into a Staffology pay run — no exports, no re-keying.
1. Switch it on
Head to Company Settings and turn on Staffology Payroll toggle. The Staffology menu then appears in your sidebar, ready to connect.
2. Connect once
Enter your Staffology API key in Chronicle and pick the employer you want to link, or create a new one. Chronicle then keeps your employer's pay codes and pay runs in step with Staffology.
3. Keep employees in sync
Add Chronicle employees to Staffology, match up staff who already exist in both systems, and set each employee's pay options without leaving Chronicle.
4. Map your hours to pay codes
Decide once how Chronicle's hours translate into Staffology pay codes. You can map basic hours, overtime, activities, cost centres, holiday, sickness, absence and exceptional items — each to the pay code you choose.
5. Send a pay run's payments
Pick a pay run, review the calculated hours and pay per employee, tick the people you want to include, and send. Chronicle records what was sent and reports anything that didn't go through, so nothing is lost silently.
6. Get payslips back
Once payroll is run, view and download payslip PDFs for a pay run directly from Chronicle.
See more details here:
https://www.chronicle-online.co.uk/staffology-payroll-integration/
Ready to set up? Reach out to your support/account manager!
We recommend doing initial set up with your Chronicle team member to ensure easy and proper to ensure smooth start and steady flight!
Meanwhile, Staffology HR integration is on its way…
Available in the new Chronicle interface. Turn the Staffology integration on in Company Settings to get started.
July 1st, 2026
We closed out the first half of the year with Working Time Directive tracking, future-year holiday views, and a monthly view for timesheets.
New
Working Time Directive (WTD): max hours configurator — go to Employee profile and find new “WTD Limits” tab with the configurator of max working hours for the employee. This feature serves mostly as information display right now and we’ll implement further system logic based on this later
Total working hours on weekly attendance view: new toggle to help you track workload breaches
Future-year holiday entitlements — added to Employee profiles. Enable respective company setting to display those.
Automatic bank holidays — newly added employees now can have their bank holidays scheduled automatically.
Monthly Timesheets view — see the timesheet summary a month at a time (company setting).
Improved (V2)
Quick "View Calendar" button on the employee profile.
Add to workflow directly from the Workflow tab on an employee's screen.
Work Records: notes moved to their own block, and general layout tidy-ups.
Self-Service: employees who can edit work records can now also add default shifts.
Calendar: employee photos shown next to names to prevent picking the wrong person.
Employee screens: action buttons moved to a top bar.
Employee list now defaults to Active staff, with an Active/Left toggle.
Dashboard exceptional-items widget now shows cost and duration.
Lists remember how many rows you chose to display for the session.
Fixed
Corrected the Employee Pay Rates Summary report.
May 31st, 2026
New
Clock-in location controls — allow or block clock-in when an employee is outside their assigned cost centre. Knowledge base article
Self-Service work records — employees can now edit their own work records with new permission (Settings → Users → Permissions → Self-Service).
2 new reports for max working hours limits breach with 17-week averaging (to help you stay complaint with UK Working Time Regulations).
New Leavers report.
Improved
Work Records: new action buttons for clockings. (V2)
Employee entitlements can be typed in directly instead of chosen from dropdowns. Manage screens open with more useful default date ranges. (V2)
Refined the Payroll Overview, Worked Hours with Flexi adjustment, Variable Import and Pay Rates reports.
April 30th, 2026
April brought more flexible holiday-year settings, a new HR integration option, and plenty of screen polish.
New
Per-employee holiday year — set an employee's holiday year starting month on their record, with a matching company setting.
New Remunerations Pay report.
Improved
Exceptions screen is now sortable and defaults to oldest-to-newest. (V2)
Larger, resizable tables across Exceptions, Overtime, Lateness, Work Record notes, Holidays, Incidents and Change Requests. (V2)
Self-Service holiday widget adapts automatically when only one holiday type applies. (V2)
March 31st, 2026
Our busiest month of the half. Highlights include pro-rata holiday calculations, big speed improvements, and a wave of newly rebuilt screens in the new Chronicle.
Main item: Chronicle V2.0 Beta went live! Check it out!
From now on, further change log updates will include V2.0 notes
New
Pro-rata holiday — automatic and manual recalculation from join and leave dates, with leave-date validation, plus multi-year history.
New Length of Service report.
Cascade payroll CSV import.
Configurable Self-Service holiday entitlement widget. (V2 only)
Improved
An overtime column added to Worked Hours report.
Extra sorting options for Worked Hours 5 Report.
Diversity report refinements.
Fixed
Payroll Rates report now includes holiday hours.
February 28th, 2026
February was all about reporting — a new Weekly Totals report and a handful of refinements to make reports clearer.
New
Improved
Holiday Entitlements Breakdown report now shows holiday descriptions instead of position names.
Clearer loading indicator when generating reports.
Fixed
Cost Centre Breakdown report now groups correctly by cost centre.
January 31st, 2026
New
New Users Desktop Login report
Improved
Work Records import (API) now supports ascending and descending sort order.
Refined the holiday carry-over calculation.
Single sign-on groundwork for the employee mobile app.
December 1st, 2025
We closed out the year on mobile — the new Manager Apps went live on Android and iOS, with single sign-on and push notifications rolling out.
New
Improved
Cascade import now supports 2026 bank holidays
Fixed
Prevent duplicate company accounts by matching on an existing company name during sign-up
September 11th, 2025
We’ve added a new integration with Microsoft Outlook to make absence management even smoother.
When enabled, any holidays, sickness, or absences recorded in Chronicle will automatically appear in your Outlook calendar. This ensures your diary is always up to date without the need for manual entry.
The sync runs every 5 minutes, so changes in Chronicle are reflected quickly in Outlook. You stay in control — the link can be switched on or off at any time.
This integration helps keep you, your team, and your wider organisation aligned, with a single view of availability across Chronicle and Outlook.
Read our knowledge Article here on how to set this feature up - Outlook Integration Guide - Chronicle